Ben Weir

artistiek onderzoek - installatie - publicatie - publieke ruimte - schrijven - tekenen

I (Ben Weir *1991, Belfast) work within the discipline (as opposed to the profession) of architecture. I denounce the notion of the architect as a neutral service provider. I draw, write, research and build. I work to uncover hidden spatial and material potentials. I generate projects through the survey of existing conditions, a process that invents as much as records. I favour dynamism, the unfinished, the open-to-change. I reject demolition and tabula rasa. I dissect, re-present and interrogate existing urban artefacts, seeking to express their current condition, situation, or relationship to us. I insert new objects into this milieu, always seeking a positive contribution to a diverse, equitable and complex environment.

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    • VierVaart

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-10-2024 t/m 30-11-2024
    • In samenwerking met: Mondriaan Funds
    • Locatie: , Groede

    VARES

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-04-2024 t/m 30-04-2024
    • Locatie: , Valga
    • A residency about making heated furniture with whatever comes to hand

    Studio Tutor

    Overig

    • 22-09-2019 t/m 20-05-2021
    • Locatie: Queen's University, Belfast
    • Development and co-running of Master's in Architecture postgraduate program, including field trips, lecture series, design of student project briefs and studio methodology

    Greylight Projects

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 01-11-2022 t/m 04-12-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Kulturraum Niederrhein a.V.
    • Locatie: , Heerlen
    • Autumn residency as part of the Borderland Residencies programme, a unique network of art residencies in the Maas-Rhine Euregion. I was studying the work of Heerlen architect Frits Peutz and its relationship to the post-mining city.

    3 bis F

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 05-11-2021 t/m 05-02-2021
    • Locatie: , Aix-en-Provence
    • A contemporary arts center of national interest (CACIN) set within the Montperrin Psychiatric Hospital. The residency included workshops with patients and staff about measuring space and objects, and concluded with a solo show in the exhibition hall which explored the notion of buildings-inside-buildings.

    Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Houses

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 25-07-2019 t/m 25-09-2019
    • In samenwerking met: Mies van der Rohe Foundation (Barcelona), University of Naples Federico II (Naples) and BOZAR (Brussels)
    • Locatie: Casa Vilaro, Barcelona
    • A Creative Europe program of the European Union in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 (EYCH), which sought to unlock various issues related to the preservation, adaptation and (re)activation of European architectural heritage. I was placed in the 1930 villa Casa Vilaro, the 'first rationalist house in Spain.'
    • https://miesbcn.com/calendar/residence-artists-in-architecture-reactivating-modern-houses-ben-weir-at-casa-vilaro/

    Jan van Eyck Academie

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 11-04-2018 t/m 22-03-2019
    • Locatie: , Maastricht
    • Participant at post-academic institute

    DU2017

    Residenties / uitwisseling

    • 03-07-2017 t/m 10-09-2017
    • Locatie: , Maastricht
    • Nomadic residency program. Eight emerging artists selected to occupy three anti-squat houses on Henri Jonasslaan in Caberg.
    • destinationunknown.nu

    Research Associate

    Overig

    • 01-01-2021 t/m 31-12-2022
    • Locatie: CCA Derry~Londonderry, Derry
    • ccadld.org

    Core is Concrete

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 05-10-2022 t/m 30-11-2022
    • In samenwerking met: Fenton Arts Trust
    • Locatie: Catalyst Arts, Belfast
    • Permanent furniture installation, alongside interventions by Niamh Seana-Meehan and Tanad Aaron

    Charged Space

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 05-01-2022 t/m 25-03-2022
    • Locatie: 3bisF - Lieu d'Arts Contemporains, Aix-en-Provence
    • Solo show

    Not Quite Nearly Fine

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 05-06-2021 t/m 28-07-2021
    • Locatie: Fondazione Baruchello, Rome
    • Presentation of recorded reading of short story, published in a book of the same name. Group show featuring Anne Huijnen, Artun Alaska Arasli, Ben Weir, Daniel de Paula, Giulio Squillacciotti, Marie Claire Krell, Marwan Moujaes, Nour Mobarak.

    Irish Modernisms: Legacies of Modernism in the North

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 29-05-2021 t/m 25-09-2021
    • Locatie: CCA Derry~Londonderry, Derry
    • Group show featuring James Ashe, Phillip McCrilly, Grace McMurry, Rachael Campbell-Palmer, Ben Weir

    Casa Vilaró: A Caress and a Blow

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 19-11-2021 t/m 10-12-2021
    • Locatie: Fundacio Mies vd Rohe, Barcelona Pavilion, Barcelona
    • Exhibition of residency outcome, launch of publication, public talk.

    Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 13-11-2019 t/m 12-01-2020
    • Locatie: BOZAR, Brussels

    GET LOST art route 2019

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 28-06-2019 t/m 03-11-2019
    • Locatie: Sloterdijk, Amsterdam
    • Temporary architectural installation in public space, collaboration with artist Andrea Canepa

    Van Eyck Open Studios

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 14-03-2019 t/m 16-03-2019
    • Locatie: Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht
    • Built intervention alongside 46 participating artists, designers, architects, curators and writers

    Imagine! Belfast Festival of Politics and Ideas

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 17-03-2018 t/m 17-03-2018
    • Locatie: Talbot Street, Belfast
    • Temporary architectural installation in public space, alongside curated program of performances, talks, sound installations from invited guests

    DU 2017

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 08-09-2018 t/m 10-09-2018
    • In samenwerking met: Stichting Destination Unknown
    • Locatie: Henri Jonaslaan, Maastricht
    • 8 person show resulting from 2 month residency occupying 3 empty anti-squat houses prior to their demolition

    EVERYTHINGGETSTREATEDTHESAME/

    Tentoonstelling / presentatie

    • 15-07-2017 t/m 15-07-2017
    • Locatie: Framewerk, Belfast
    • Exhibition alongside book launch

    Erkenningen

      Stipendium

    • Arts Council of Northern Ireland

    • 2022
      Stipendium

    • Fenton Arts Trust, UK

    • 2022
      Stipendium

    • Fleur Groenendijk Foundation, Rotterdam

    • 2021
      Stipendium

    • A-N the artists company

    • 2023
      Stipendium

    • O&O CBK

    • 2023
      Publicatie

    • Casa Vilaro; Artists in Architecture: Re-Activating Modern European Heritage

    • 2020
    • Exhibition accompaniment
    • Fundacio Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona) - Ben Weir, Ariadna Perich, Anna Ramos, Ivan Blasi
      Publicatie

    • Everything Gets Treated The Same

    • 2017
    • Artist book
    • Self-published - Ben Weir
      Publicatie

    • Not Quite Nearly Fine

    • 2022
    • Compilation
    • Arbor Editions (Rome) - Giulio Squillacciotti
      Publicatie

    • An Addition to a Room

    • 2023
    • Self-pulished
    • Greylight Projects, Kulturraum Niederrhein bv - Ben Weir